As Israel wages an international battle for its legitimacy, a new book details the country’s secret alliance with South Africa’s apartheid regime.

Nation Contributing Editor Christian Parenti talks about Obama’s lack of planning when it comes to Af-Pak.

The Tories want to make budget cuts fast and deep.

Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel discusses the political aftermath of the Moscow suicide bombings.

As our own yellow press goes from strength to strength, what can the history of slander and libel teach us?

The Latin American utopia has disappeared, says novelist and crackero Jorge Volpi, and he displays little nostalgia for it.

It's time for Obama to confront Netanyahu's intransigence directly.

 Is the world's future resource map tilting East?

Russians will not be safe until there is a political and economic solution to the decades-long war and occupation of Chechnya and the surrounding regions.

Germany has problems--but on healthcare and gun control, it's way ahead of the States.